The Rothmans Grand Prix
A cool quarter of a million pounds and precious world ranking points are available to the world's top snooker players, and the No 1 seed TONY KNOWLES - who is the holder of this Championship as the current Professional
Players Champion - is seeded to play BILL WERBENlUK in this best-of-nine-frame third-round match.
In fact this tournament will be one of the most difficult of all to win this new snooker season, as the top 16 seeds will have had to play two nine-frame matches before they reach this stage - and Werbeniuk has last year's beaten finalist JOE JOHNSON in his path.
DAVID VINE introduces coverage from the Hexagon, Reading. Commentators TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM , CLIVE EVERTON Producers
MIKE ADLEY , KEITH MACKENZIE
Executive producer NICK HUNTER